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Koecher in vol. iv. (press-mark in British information about Turlis the executioner, Museum 9386. ee), of the " Publications from who died in April, 1771. Mr. Oxford Prussian Archives," and her correspondence possesses a receipted bill of the public by Bodemann in vol. xxvi. (press-mark 9386. eee).

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Sir Thomas ?? Rowe is meant for Roe; and Siebenbürgen is the German name of Transylvania. "Prince of Siebenbuergen in Transylvania" looks grotesque (p. 227). There is such a publication as berger Jahrbücher [der Litteratur],' but it is not the source to which the lady refers.

'Heidel

whipper (who was also the hangman) in 1767,
upon which the man signs himself Edward
Turlis. I suspect this individual to be the
Tallis who succeeded John Thrift in May,
1752.
HORACE BLEACKLEY.

be L. L. K.

TICKET, PORTRAIT PAINTER.-Probably less is known of the English portrait painters of the first quarter of the eighteenth century than of any other period. The period, it is true, is not an inspiring one, and most of the portraits, especially of clerics, bear a strong family likeness. I feel sure that many of these were done by an artist-unrecorded by Bryan and other writers of the name of Ticket. I find that I have one after this artist of the Rev. Robert Warren, S.T.P., "rector of St. Mary at Stratford Bow, in Middlesex," engraved by H. Fletcher, who does appear in Bryan. Warren wrote a number of religious books and pamphlets, some of which ran into many editions, and to one of these his engraved portrait was added as frontispiece. He does not appear in the 'D.N.B.

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W. ROBERTS.

"SVABACH."-In Cech this word means German calligraphy, i.e., cisti svabach, to read German. In appearance it is an ablative plural. Prof. Dr. V. E. Mourek's CechEnglish dictionary gives, besides this word, svab, docked tail, dock-tailed horse, cockroach; svaby, peeled barley. Svabach is more likely to be derived from svab, as a popular expression, than from Suabia (Svabia). FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Streatham Common.

HERB-WOMAN TO THE KING. (See 10 S. xii. 289, 354, 418.)-At the first reference appeared a query concerning a lady said to hereditary herb-strewer to the royal family, the dignity having been conferred on her great-aunt, daughter of one of the King's physicians.' Perhaps Miss Fellowes was the " great

aunt :

"Miss Fellowes, sister to Mr. Fellowes, Secre the appointment of Herb-woman to his Majesty, tary to the Lord Great Chamberlain, has received pursuant to a promise which, we understand, was made to her, while his Majesty was yet Prince of Wales. This lady will have to nominate her six maids, who will be young ladies of respectthe procession strewing the way with flowers."able families, and their duty will be to precede Preparations for the Coronation,' Gentleman's Magazine, 1821, vol. xci. pt. i. p. 560.

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"On the arrival of the Procession at the Abbey, the Herb-woman and her Maids, and the SerjeantPorter, remained at the entrance within the great West-door."-Ibid., p. 8.

W. Toone in his 'Chronological Historian,' 1826, ii. 674, says :

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"All were splendidly dressed in white, Miss Fellows [sic] wore in addition a scarlet mantle trimmed with gold lace."

When the King was approaching Westminster Hall at about half-past three, "Miss Fellowes with her assistants first entered the Hall....The Herb-women were followed by the Children of the Chapel, the Judges, and the Privy Councillors not Peers."-Gentleman's Maga

THE COMMON HANGMAN. (See 1 S. xi. 13, 95, 252; xii. 293; 2 S. xi. 151, 256, 314, 445; 4 S. ix. 136; 5 S. vi. 26; 10 S. viii. 244, 335, 353, 376; x. 167.)-According to the records of the Barber-Surgeons' Com-zine, vol. xci, pt. ii. p. 13. pany, quoted in The Daily Telegraph of 7 March, one John Hooper held the office of hangman in 1730.

From a delightful little book entitled 'Notes from a Collector's Catalogue,' by the Rev. A. W. Oxford, a copy of which the author has been kind enough to send to I have gleaned a useful piece of

me,

Some of the above, taken from The Annual Register,' was given by COL. FYNMORE at the second reference. Refer also to 11 S. i. 126.

I have found no reference to a herb-woman at the comparatively economical coronation of William IV. I doubt the_office being hereditary. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

BYRON RELICS.-The Daily Chronicle recently mentioned that the carriage of Lord Byron, used by him in travelling, was in Australia, lying neglected in the outhouse of an inn, the roosting-place of fowls.

now

Samuel Irenæus Prime mentions a companion relic of the poet, which he saw at Liverpool, and of which he remarks :

66 Dr. Raffles showed me also the identical table on which Lord Byron wrote Childe Harold' and other poems; and the doctor has put it to a better use in writing many a good sermon on it. The table shuts up, so as to be conveniently stowed away in a carriage, and was Byron's travelling secretary while he was in Italy."See Travels in Europe and the East,' New York, 1855, vol. i. p. 210.

Anderson says the third canto of 'Childe Harold' was written in Switzerland ( Works of Lord Byron,' vol. i. p. 161). D. J.

FLY PAINTED ON A SHIELD: JAPANESE VARIANT.-In 'Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres,' ed. Hazlitt, 1881, p. 122, is this anecdote :

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

TRAVELLERS NOT IN 'D.N.B.'

I HAVE recently referred to the 'Dictionary of National Biography' in vain for a number of travellers whom I should have expected to find noticed there.

D'Abbadie, Antoine, born at Dublin 1810; died 20 March, 1897.

D'Abbadie, Arnauld Michel, born at Dublin 1815; died 8 Nov., 1893. These two brothers, sons of a French father and Irish mother, travelled in Abyssinia (or Ethiopia, as the country should be called) from 1838 to 1848. They traversed the country in various directions, and published accounts of their travels. Antoine was the "A yonge man that on a tyme went a warfare, first European to visit Enarea and Kaffa caused a flye to be peynted in his shylde, euen of (1843), though his claims were adversely the very greatnes of a flye; wherfore some and bitterly criticized by Dr. C. T. Beke. laughed at him and sayde: ye do well, because ye (See Encyclopædia Britannica, Supplewyll not be knowen. Yes, quod he, I do it becausement to 9th ed. i. 1902, p. 2; The Catholic I wyll be knowen and spoken of. For I wyll approch so nere our enemys, that they shall Encyclopædia'; The Geographical Journal, xi. 459; A Travers le Monde,' 1897, p. 159.) Arnauld returned to Ethiopia in 1853, and I should be glad to learn particulars of this visit.

well decerne what armes I beare."

may

The following Japanese variant interest some of your readers, especially MR. COLLINGWOOD LEE, who has left this tale entirely unhandled in his valuable notes (9 S. xi. 363)::

Kitajo Tango [killed 1579] had his sashimono [a signum carried on the warrior's back] made of white silk, only one foot square, and with a black ant represented in its midst. When his master, Kenshin, asked him why he adopted so inconspicuous a banner as his own, he replied thus: Indeed, sometimes this might prove indiscernible to our soldiers; but should I head them in every march, and should I bring up the rear in every retreat, our enemies would find this small banner of mine ever as conspicuous as the much larger and heavier ones of other warriors.' "'-Yuasa, Jôzan Kidan,' 1739, tom. iii. chap. xviii. KUMAGUSU MINAKATA.

Bell, John G., travelled in Ethiopia 1840-60. He married an Abyssinian lady; was in the service of Ras Ali (1849); entered that of the Emperor Theodoros, 1855;. killed by rebels in October or December, 1860. His diary, 1840-42, was published in Miscellanea Ægyptiaca,' vol. i. part i., 1842. (I should be glad to have an opportunity of seeing this work.) There are casual references to him in Ferret et Galinier, Voyage en Abyssinie,' 1847; Mansfield Parkyns, Life in Abyssinia,' 1853 and 1868; Henry Dufton, Narrative of a Journey through Abyssinia, 1867; Dr. C. T. Beke, The British Captives in Abyssinia,' 1867; Dr. J. L. Krapf, Travels, 1860; Henry A. BELT FAMILY. (See 8 S. xii. 128.)Stern, Wanderings among the Falashas,' Robert Belt of Bossal married Margaret 1862; Walter Chichele Plowden, Travels in Gordon, daughter of Peter Gordon, and Abyssinia,' 1868; and E. A. De Cosson, granddaughter of James Gordon, merchant, 'The Cradle of the Blue Nile,' 1877. The Garmouth (died 1765, aged 69), who beD.N.B.,' xlv. 431, mentions him as "J. T. longed to the Gordons of Cairnfield. Did Bell" in its notice of Walter Chichele PlowMr. Belt the sculptor belong to the Bossal den, who joined him in 1843. family?

Tanabe Kii, Japan.

118, Pall Mall, S. W.

J. M. BULLOCH.

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Coffin, W. H., in Abyssinia, 1810-26; 18321855 or later. (See 10 S. xii. 108, 230.)

11 S. I. APR. 2, 1910.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Annesley, George, Viscount Valentia, afterwards 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, F.R.S.; born 1769; succeeded his father Arthur, died 23 July, 1844. 1st Earl, in 1816; (See Burke,Peerage,' 1908, 8.v. Valentia; J. J. Halls,Life of Henry Salt,' 1834, i. 463.) He travelled in the East, and published his 'Voyages and Travels in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the Years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806,' in 3 vols., 4to, 1809, and 3 vols., 8vo, and atlas 4to, 1811; also in French, 4 vols, 8vo, Paris,

1813.

R.N., Gordon, Capt. Robert James, travelled to Sennar for the African Association; died at Welet Medina 27 Sept., 1822. (See 10 S. xii. 29, 138.)

Hoskins, G. A., travelled up the Nile to Meroë 1833, and in Egypt in 1835. Published Ethiopia 'Travels in Ethiopia', 1835; Visit to the Great versus Egypt,' 1836; Oasis of the Libyan Desert,' 1837; Spain as It Is,' 1851; Winter in Upper and Lower Egypt,' 1863.

I shall be glad to receive additional information about any of the above.

FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

39, Agate Road, Hammersmith, W.

GENERAL EYRE.-I should be glad if some of your readers would kindly, for purposes historical, put me in communication with representatives of General and Mrs. Eyre, the great friends of Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde. They were living at Chatham in DAVID ROSS MCCORD, K.C. 1863.

Temple Grove, Montreal.

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Ambassador to Switzerland. The represen
tatives of the Powers have always been
Louis XIV., in view, presumably,
Ministers, with the exception of that of
France.
of the valuable contingent of Swiss officers
and soldiers supplied by the little republic,
raised the status of the French representa-
tive at Berne to that of Ambassador, and
so it has remained ever since; but the
I may mention that informa-
town knows no other foreign dignitary
of this rank.
tion regarding M. Herwart is not available
at the Chancery of the British Legation at
Berne, as the records, when forty years old,
J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC.
are sent to the Rolls Office in London.
Sch ossRothberg, Rougemont, Switzerland.
'SCOTICANÆ ECCLESIÆ
G. CHALMERS'S
INFANTIA. There was sold at Sotheby's
on 2 Dec., 1879 (Sale Catalogue of David
"Camerarii vel Chalmers (G.), Scoticanæ
Laing's Library, Part I., No. 607) :
Sir J. J.
Ecclesiæ Infantia, virilis Etas, Senectus; auto-
graph of Liber Patricii Camerarii,'
Chalmers,' with Latin verses on Aberdeen citizens,
and D. Laing'; calf extra, g.e., extremely
rare, unknown to Lowndes, Paris, 1643."

I cannot trace this work in any library nor do I even know whether catalogue ; the author is the George Chalmers of my "Gulielmus query, ante, p. 226, or the Camerarius, Scotus," of the following query. Information is desired. P. J. ANDERSON. University Library, Aberdeen.

a

'DISPUTATIONES WILLIAM CHALMERS'S THEOLOGICÆ.'-I have lying before me small octavo of pp. [xii.] + 165 + [11], with the title :

:

....

"Gulielmi | Camerarii, | Scoti, Fintræi, | Sacræ Opposita Theologia | Doctoris, | et Professoris emeriti, &c. | Disputationes Theologica Professoris | Neabredonensis, de iisdem materiis. | Disputationibus Roberti Baronis, Ministri et Parisiis, Apud Dionysium Houssaye, via Carmelitana. M.DC.XXXIX. | Cum approbatione.' Who was this William Chalmers, native of Whence did Fintray in Aberdeenshire?

W. BILLYNG'S FIVE WOUNDS OF CHRIST': LOMBERDALE HOUSE.-In 1814 Billyng's poem was printed by W. Bateman of Darby, from a finely written and near Matlock, At illuminated parchment roll....about 2 yards in length," dated 1400-1430. 4 S. iii. 229, the original parchment roll was stated by the late LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, F.S.A., to be at Lomberdale House. The work described is in any reader of N. & Q. tell me where Lomberhe professor ? dale House is, or give any further informa- he get his degree of Doctor, and where was P. J. ANDERSON. tion concerning William Billyng's manu-neither the British Museum nor the Biblio(Miss) H. M. R. MURRAY. script? Oxford.

Can

M. D'HERWART AT BERNE IN 1750.---I find in an interesting old chronicle relating to the little town of Vevey, on Lake Leman, a notice of a "Monsieur d'Herwart, l'Ambassadeur this Who Berne.' Britannique à official ? Is the name Herbert here misOf course there never was a British spelt?

was

Condé had children. Did they remain in Scotland, and could the name in a century change from Condé to Conkè, Conky, Conkey, McConkey ? The last form appears about 1690. Would not a Scotchman understand a Frenchman, with his peculiar accent, to say Conkè instead of Condé ? (Mrs.) CHAS. S. LANGDON.

108, Gillett Street, Hartford, Conn.

D. CAMERINO ARCANGELUS, PAINTER.Can any of your readers throw light upon the present whereabouts of two pictures bearing the inscription "D. Camerino Arcangelus Pinxit." One represented the Crucifixion with saints, the other the Madonna and Child with angels. They were exhibited in 1880 at the Winter Exhibition at Burlington House (Nos. 221, 222), being then the property of Mrs. Longland. The information is urgently required by a writer who is engaged upon a study of this painter, and who would gratefully welcome any clue which might lead to further information being obtained relating to these two paintings. D. C. A. FIRST ELECTIONS UNDER THE BALLOT ACT.-Where and when did the first election -municipal or Parliamentary-under the Ballot Act of 1872 take place? take place earlier than Boston (municipal) Did any 22 July, 1872, and Pontefract (Parliamentary), 15 Aug., 1872 ? R. A.

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ROWLAND-HOE."-In George Wither's
Christmas Carol' is the following stanza :—
Now kings and queens poor sheepcotes have,
And mate with everybody;

The honest now may play the knave,
And wise men play at noddy.

Some youths will now a-mumming go,
Some others play at rowland-hoe,
And twenty other gambols moe
Because they will be merry.
What was the game of " rowland-hoe," which
I do not find by name in any work of reference
at hand? J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

Gilds

LONDON RECTORS' CONFEDERATION.-At pp. 100-2 of Mr. George Unwin's and Companies of London' (reviewed ante, tion of London Rectors," which flourished p. 18) is an account of the "Secret Confederain the early part of the fourteenth century, Library. ("gg. 432, fo. 108 et seq."). I based upon a MS. in Cambridge University should be glad if any correspondent having access to this library would kindly inform me of the members of the gild in question. It whether the MS. gives the personal names appears from Mr. Unwin's foot-note at p. 100 that the Rector of St. John Zachary (who is unknown for the period to which the MS. relates) was one of the twenty-two members of the gild in 1317.

WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

given me as to the introduction, English WALL-PAPERS.-Can any information be manufacture, and early use of block printed and coloured paper as a wall-covering? It of decoration to take the place of panelling was introduced, I presume, as a cheap method and the mural paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I have seen examples of the latter work at Rye (the old "Star Green), and at Denham, Bucks (The Savoy), Inn "), Chiddingfold (an early house on the which cannot long antedate wall-papers.

I believe one of the oldest wall-papers in England (I understand, Chinese work) is to be seen at Ightham Mote. A magnificent paper both in design and colour is also to be seen in a small room at the Red House in the

In Hazlitt, 'On the Ignorance of the cations by the editors are not always trustLearned':

13. The vine-covered hills and gay regions of Ipswich. Brief Sketch of the History of Ipswich

In Leigh Hunt's 'Description of a Hot Oxford. The Roll of St. Edward's School, 1863– Day' :